Articles, videos and stories are easy to find these days. If you look around hard enough, you will find more gossip and a more detailed discussion of how the studio worked. You do get to genuinely believe that there is something inspiring about the place and that there was a genuine bond between the people of Montserrat and those who came to record here. But whether she knew she had it or not, it was the moment that presented an unfeigned connection between the music business and the island itself. It seems a tall tale, as did several others from the film. She said she didn't know this when she started working on the project, but the father of Gracie Otto, the film's director, had a copy in his attic. Stevie Wonder, over here to record Ebony and Ivory with Paul McCartney, wanted to play in a bar with a local band, and unbeknown to most people before now, there was a recording still in existence. It was a joyous ending to an uplifting film, but the best moment was the recording from the Agouti. We finished with Danny Sweeney, windsurf coach to the stars, dancing to Walk of Life. There followed interviews with local people about the impact of the studio on their life, and the island as a whole. After opening with some words from Knopfler, Sting, and others, about the magic of the place, we went straight to Arrow and the local music scene. The genius of the film, though, was to present the island as an authentic muse. Sting also got a writing credit on the song for his trouble. The refrain "I want my MTV," sung by Sting on Money for Nothing, was MTV's slogan to encourage cable companies to include the channel in their bundles. Brothers in Arms was promoted as a gateway to the CD format, which was far cheaper to produce, and more convenient for the user. Partly by design and partly by chance, their music became tied into vast corporate projects to expand new disruptive media, including CDs and the fledgling cable TV. The film explained how the already successful Police and Dire Straits, with the help of great timing and a good deal of luck went stratospheric. But they had Yve Robinson, the former manager, as a sort of narrator, who had met everyone who arrived and could sense their differing responses to the working conditions. Too many anecdotes from the crinkly male rockers may have changed the film's balance anyway. There was no Elton, McCartney, Jagger, and many others, but with the help of band members, producers, home movies and clips from a contemporaneous documentaries, the gaps were seamlessly closed. Sir George Martin owned the studio, and The Police and Dire Strains produced not only the biggest selling albums in the short life of AIR Studios Montserrat, but some of the biggest selling albums of the 1980s. It was a bit of a coup, and without these, it may not have been half the film it was. The producers managed to get all three members of the Police to appear in this film along with Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, and Sir George Martin's family. Reviewed by craig-278 9 / 10 The Calliope Crashed to the Ground
0 kommentar(er)
